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Film Scanners I want to put my pictures online, so I am looking for a film scanner. I don't know much about them and was wondering what a good suggestion is. Photography is a hobby, I have a nikon n65 with quantaray 28-90mm and nikkor 70-300mm lenses. When using a film scanner, can you use negatives that have already been developed? I don't have any experience developing film and don't have any darkroom equipment, so I wouldn't know how to take the finished roll and scan the film myself. Thanks, and I appreciate any help. And on an unrelated topic, I am also interested in astronomy. I have a telescope, although I have not used it for photography yet. I was wondering about aperature and shutter speed settings for astrophotography. I live in the DC metro area, so I know I need to get away from the city lights. How will I be able to tell if I am far away enough from the city to get a good photo. Thanks again.
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doug Nelson |
If you're going to scan only negatives, you can get by with a cheaper scanner. The Hewlett-Packard S-20 does a great job with negs. At full resolution, your image can print a true photo quality 8 x 10. Read up on the HP scanner at sphoto.com. Some folks like the Pacific Imaging scanners, very reasonably priced. For slides as well, and if you want higher resolution, look at Canon, Minolta and Nikon. Just take your developed negative strip, color or B&W, and pop it in the scanner. You must consider one other need, an imaging program for your computer. Adobe Elements is a great place to start. See my articles on scanning and Photoshop on the web page.
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Michael F. Harrington |
I recently purchased the Epson Perfection 2450 flatbed slide/film scanner. At first I was dubious. Not anymore! It's a lot of bang for the buck and it scans my slides well enough to do crisp clear 8x10 prints! All I know about Doug's recommendation is the HP scanners have a very good reputation. But I could find no reviews on them anywhere. They were sitting side by side along with the Epson's at Sam's club. The HP was 20 bucks cheaper, but I took the Epson for 299$. List is $399. I have HP Scanjet 4100C (old) also, and it's been a very good print scanner. Can't do slides, though. Go to http://community.webshots.com/scripts/controlPanel.fcgi and see my scanned slides. Look at the album "My Travels in Asia" and "Grand Canyon". That may help you to be sure of the Epson.
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